What's the secret of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa?

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has two mysteries, one is the background and the other is the prototype.

1. Mystery of background: Carlo pedretti, a professor at the University of California, believes that the background behind Mona Lisa is the scenery near Brianaud Bridge in arezzo, central Italy. Pedretti's evidence is that Da Vinci was born in Da Vinci Town, about 100 km from arezzo, and once lived in arezzo. The original landscape in this area is almost the same as the background of Mona Lisa.

The British Guardian website 201165438+1October 9 reported that Italian art historian Carla Gloria said that the background bridge and a road above the Mona Lisa's shoulder in the painting belong to the northern Italian town of Bobbio.

2. Mystery of prototype: GiUsep Palanti, a teacher in Florence, Italy, suggested that Mona Lisa was a "housewife" with five children. Palanti studied Florence's archives for 25 years and concluded that the prototype of Mona Lisa was lisa gherardini, the wife of a friend of Leonardo da Vinci's father and a housewife with five children.

According to Palanti's research, Lisa married Francesco Giocondo, a Florentine silk merchant, when she was 1495 and 16 years old, and Giocondo was a good friend and neighbor of Leonardo's father Piero. Lisa is Giocondo's second wife. The couple have a good relationship and have five children.

Giocondo said in his will that Lisa was his "beloved" and "loyal" wife. Palanti believes that The Portrait of Mona Lisa was completed when Lisa was 24 years old. Leonardo da vinci's father arranged everything and paid his son to paint this picture for his friend's wife.

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Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci's favorite work, and the author took it with him all his life. It was not until the death of Leonardo da Vinci that King Francis I of France bought it from his disciples for 12000 livres. Since then, the work has been collected in the Louvre in France.

On Tuesday, August 22nd, 19 1 1, a Paris artist, Louis Bayard, who lives by copying famous paintings of tourists, walked into the square hall of the Louvre. He found that there were only four nails left where the Mona Lisa hung.

In fact, on Monday morning, some museum employees noticed that the painting was not in its original place, but they thought it was taken down by the museum photographer and taken to the studio to take pictures. Museum officials were told that the Mona Lisa had been stolen.

Until two years later,19165438+1October 29th, Alfred Jerry, an antique dealer in Florence, received a letter signed "Da Vinci". He claimed to "return" the painting to Italy on the condition that he would be paid 50,000 lira, and hinted that he was driven by patriotism and that the returned things were stolen by outsiders.

After they met, Jerry compared the photo of the original painting on his hand with the turtle crack on the original painting (that is, the crack on the paint is often regarded as the "fingerprint" of the painting to identify the authenticity), and it turns out that this is the real Mona Lisa.

Soon, he persuaded the "thief" to return to the hotel to wait for the bonus, and then called the police and arrested the thief whose original name was Vincenzo Perugia. In the end, the thief was only sentenced to one year and fifteen days in prison. After heated discussions, the Italian Parliament returned the Mona Lisa painting to France.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Mona Lisa